Why Is It Ethical To Pay For Inmates

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Some prisons provide health care plans or treatment to inmates. The nurses or certain medical health care professionals come in and check the inmates. They give them check ups every couple months. They don’t get them as much as regular people do. Even though the nurses come to the prisons, that doesn't mean that the inmates do not have to pay for the check ups. In most states the inmates have to pay somewhere around 100 dollars for their check ups. Some states and local governments require co payments for some medical services. They give them regular check ups , they get their blood pressure taken too. They also get a physical as well. If the inmate is over 60, they will get a yearly electrocardiogram. Most prisons allow the inmates in that certain jail or prison to have check ups by the health care professionals. …show more content…

It is legal because one of the rights of inmates is the right to appropriate medical care. The right says that the medical care provided must be adequate. The medical treatment or care is for both short term illness and long term illness. Some prisons say that even the worst criminals have to be given the medical care that they need. The Government says that it is legal too.
Medical treatment given to inmates is ethical to some people. Some people think that it is not ethical to give treatments and basic check ups to an inmate because of what that person did wrong. They say that those criminals do not deserve treatments or check ups. On the flip side, other people think it is ethical to give treatment to inmates because it a law that they must follow. It is stated in the inmate's book of rights that they are to be given some certain medical treatments. The government does say it is ethical to give the inmates health care

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